Dodge City times., 1887-05-12

The Committees Report.
The question of the location OF tho new
Presbyterian College has been . subject
of much interest to the people Of this city
The advantages accruing from the college
arc self evident. The only question now
agitating the minds of the citizens and
committees is to find q location that will
be of equal benefit to all concerned.
The Rev. DR.. Boyd, the chairman Of
the city committee, informs US In an
swer to few inquiries, that 1t has beer
positively decided to locate the college
here. The building will probably cost,
when completed, about $4,000. 1t will
be built of Ford county sandstone. The
building itself will be of modern school
architecture, and will contain every need.
ed apparatus and contrivance. Its cur.
iculum will embrace everything found in
first class literary and scientific college.
This school is being organized under the
sanction and guidance of the Larned
Presbytery, which embraces almost all Of
the west half of Kansas, and Its patron.
age is assured. 1t must not be under.
stood that this is to be sectarian school,
said the Doctor. While it is supported
by the Presbyterians, it will be non-sec-
tartan in its teachings and conducted on
the most liberal plan. 1t is not even un-
derstood that the faculty will be COM
posed entirely of members of that demon.
ination, although the probabilities are
that it will. DR.. Boyd also informs US
that President for the school will be en-
gagged at once whose known experience
and ability will insure certain success.
The school will open for preparatory
session this fall in such a part of the
buildings as will be completed at that
time. A large number Of students have
spoken of attending the opening session.
The college proper will begin its regular
sessions during the fall of the following
year.
The committee appointed by the Lar
ned Presbytery to confer with the city
committee for the purpose of locating the
college site consists of the Rev. j. w.
Thompson, Of Great Bend; Rev. d. King.
rey, of Garden City; Elder T. B. Stew
art, Speareville; Elder j. w. Hanna,
Sterling; and Rev. d. B. F. Powelson, Of
Lyons After thorough examination Of
all the proposed sites the committee came
to this conclusion: Our preference Is
first the west site, offered by Shinn,
Collar, Zimermann & Co., provided that
the assets can be guaranteed to cover a
forty acre site and $50, 900 cash for build
ing, leaving us an equivalent of $4,000
for an operating fund.
Our second preference is the north site,
offered by Soule, Mullendore & Co., with
a similar guarantee. The committee
made general proposition to the city,
asking the city committee to complete the
arrangements for one of the sites selected,
and guarantee the erection of the build
ing, according to the requirements Of the
proposers of sites, giving notice within
five days to the chairman Of Presbytery.
Committee.-J. w. Thompson, T. B.
Stewart, D. Kingsley, J. Hanna, D. H.
Stewart.
This is certainly an enterprise Of very
auspicious portent to Dodge City. En-.
terprises of this nature are seldom held in
solution by the ordinary town lot boom.
1t is the acme of permanency, and is
source Of extreme qualification to the cit
liens of both town and county.
This movement is intended to be for
the mutual advantage of all classes. We
find no selfish motives peeping forth from
an i'll concealed disguise Of public enter
prise. The drawbacks to western set.
tlement are steadily giving way. All the
old difficulties of drOuth and lack of rail-
road facilities have vanished, and now it is
proposed to remove the last and most
dreaded difficulty, viz, the poor educa-
tional advantages, the unavoidable |
of all newly settled communi-
ties The opening of our college will be
a trumpets blast all over the state, her.
aiding the dawn of different era in the
history Of our city. Some morning our
streets will be filled with the bright faces
of college boys and girls, and unchastity
and immortality with all its hideous
attaches, will shrink back in shame, and
will finally spread its wings for other hid
ing places The churches will take heart |
under the influence of the favored season,
in the enjoyment of more vigorous
growth. God speed the day, and on the
coming of its morn the sun will rise over
a city unblemished save by the distorted
faces of baffled rum sellers.
Many people in the eastern states i'm |
agine that our central and western Kan |
sas towns are made up of the ''rustler"
and cowboy" element, and that the
of our citizens is at low ebb. |
To such we will say that when you visit
us you will find matters just the reverse.
True, years ago, when the saloon was the |
first business house town could boast of |